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The Endless Hills
Perryville KY October 6-9, 2016 Early morning behind our camp. I made an early start to Perryville, arriving Thursday afternoon. I located our camp by finding the tall bald Cpl Cochran standing next to Capt Sharp smoking his vapor pipe. Capt Sharp had a rather large role in the planning of the event and was…
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Preparing for Battle
Perryville Cleanup Day August 20th 2016 Perryville, KY Saturday morning on August 20–just after 9 am–we met with the park officials at Perryville Battlefield. They gave us some tools, and we headed for the hill next to Starkweather Hill. The job before us was to remove a modern wire fence that had put up after…
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Defencing the Line
PERRYVILLE CLEANUP DAY Perryville, KY April 23, 2016 We drove down to Perryville, KY and set up camp at the Baymont Inn in Harrodsburg, surviving the night with what sounded like someone sharpening a sword with a grindstone. We broke camp early, arriving at the Perryville Battlefield at 9 am, meeting with Chad Greene for…
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Touching the Sacred Grounds
Perryville, KY October 3-4, 2015 The muck and mire from a week of rain threatened to swallow our vehicles whole as we arrived in Perryville for the weekend. The air provided a spitting mist that slowly soaked our very being. Golf carts were deployed to haul our gear from the parking lot to our camp.…
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Preserving the Battlefield
Perryville Cleanup Day Perryville, KY May 23, 2015 We arrived at the Perryville Battlefield early ready to work. It was their cleanup day, and we hoped we could avoid the hazards we encountered from last year. Ten of us from the 1st Tennessee were ready to work. Chad Greene assigned us to work on a…
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Choking in Chaplin Hills
152nd Anniversary, Battle of Perryville Perryville KYOctober 4-5, 2014 We knew the turnout for this off-year event would not be anything like the big anniversary years, but there was still enough to field a battalion on each side, though the 4th Kentucky had to galvanize for the battle each day. I was told that 75…
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The Barn that Wouldn’t Die
Perryville Cleanup WeekendPerryville Kentucky April 5, 2014 More and more the 1st Tennessee is progressing into battlefield preservation. This weekend the Perryville Battlefield held a cleanup day where we assisted.Over coffee and donuts we discussed the plan for the day where we would work on cleaning out an old barn and tearing it down. The…
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The First National
Perryville Battle, 150th Commemoration Perryville KY I grew up in Ohio, and my idea of seafood was something from Red Lobster. It was something passable for supper, but stank fishy. But then I visited Barcelona, Spain, and had fish fresh from the Mediterranean. I realized Ohio does not have seafood—it only serves spoiled fish. Seafood…